Diddy scores huge win as judge rules key witness can’t come back to testify: Live trial updates
Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs’s trial for s3x trafficking and racketeering is on its fifth week on Monday in New York City.

By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER and DANIEL BATES AT THE DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN FEDERAL COURTHOUSE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ star team of lawyers will cross-examine his ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ on Tuesday in his s3x-trafficking and racketeering trial in New York City as the rapper scored a huge victory in court.

The disgraced mogul’s third accuser told the jury that she continued having ‘freak offs’ with him even after Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit exposing Diddy’s alleged crimes.

Jane, who is testifying under a pseudonym, said on Monday that he forced her to have a s3xual encounter with a male s3x worker last year after chasing her around her California home, putting her in a chokehold, punching her in the face and kicking down doors.

Prosecutors are relying on expert testimony to explain why Diddy’s alleged victims at times appeared enthusiastic about the freak-offs.

But Judge Arun Subramanian ruled on Tuesday that the state cannot recall their expert witness to explain why victims may have acted as if they consented when they did not.

Diddy, 55, has pleaded not guilty to s3x trafficking and racketeering charges that could put him in prison for life.

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Diddy gets huge win in court as judge says psychologist can’t get back on the stand
A ruling by judge Arun Subramanian delivered a blow to the prosecution’s case, as they will not be able to recall an expert witness to explain victim behavior.

A significant part of the prosecution’s case against Diddy relies on whether the jury believes his alleged victims were coerced into the so-called freak-offs or that they were willing participants.

To prove that victims were coerced, prosecutors brought in expert testimony from clinical psychologist Dawn Hughes, who also testified for Amber Heard during her case against Johnny Depp.

Hughes told the court last month that victims may say things they don’t mean – like wanting to participate in certain s3xual acts – as a means of survival. She said victims who are subject to violence also disassociate which can affect their memory.

Her testimony was meant to explain why Diddy’s alleged victims stayed with him and continued sending loving messages appearing to consent to what they now say was s3x trafficking.

However, Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that Hughes could not speak to the jury about coercive control, which can make victims become reliant on their abusers and keeping the abuse a secret, as reported by USA Today.

Prosecutors wanted Hughes to come back on the stand to explain to jurors why victims stay in relationships with abusers.

They wrote Hughes is needed to explain ‘how different forms of abuse combine, the “environment of fear and obedience’ that impacts a victim’s decision-making and emotions, and how abuse is ‘interspersed with rewards, positivity, affection, and normalcy” to create attachment and dependency.’

Diddy’s lawyers, on their part, asked the court to not allow more expert testimony, arguing that ‘Hughes’s use of broad generalizations about typical behaviors, divorced from any examination of the alleged victims in this case, is contrary to guidelines regulating Hughes’s profession.’

On Tuesday, the judge sided with the defence and ruled that Hugues will not get back on the stand.

Dawn Hughes arrives at Diddy’s trial on May 21.

Diddy called Jane his ‘crack pipe’
In a voice note from playes to the court on Tuesday, Diddy told Jane: ‘Baby had a great time

‘You are the crack pipe. That’s my new name for you, or shall I call you CP.’

When asked about the comment, Jane said it referenced addiction ‘to her ex.’

In a voice note from Jane to Diddy played to the court, she is heard telling him: ‘Crack pipe is so real for both of us….definitely stay in the light, have a good celebration for you.

I had so, so, so much fun with you. Turks was incredible, being close with you. I’m so happy. I’m definitely going to rest up…’

Jane received about $150k from Diddy in 3 years
Jane told the court that throughut her 3.5 relationship with Diddy, she received about $150,000 from him.

‘I never counted but I’d assume, yeah,’ she replied when asked about the sum.

Diddy’s lawyers then pressed, asking her whether she has ‘always gravitated towards providers?’

Jane replied: ‘I do find men who are successful attractive as a woman. My ideal partner is a protector and provider.’

REVEALED: The wildest Diddy conspiracy theories to emerge from his trial
Internet trolls have tried to connect some of America’s biggest names – from Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to Beyoncé and Jay-Z – to Diddy’s alleged misconduct.

Prince and Kim Porter were brought into the discourse posthumously with theorists alleging both detailed Diddy’s alleged exploits before their deaths.

Others even went as far as baselessly claiming Los Angeles’ deadly Palisades Fire was set in an attempt to burn evidence that would be essential to Diddy’s trial.

Jane says she still loves Diddy
Jane admitted during cross-examination Tuesday that she still loves her ex and alleged victimizer Diddy.

When asked if she wanted to ‘cuddle with Diddy’ during their relationship, she replied: ‘And give him foot rubs.’

Diddy was smiling as Jane spoke and described him as her ‘baby.’

‘You used to hug him and cuddle him?’ attorney Teny Geragos asked her.

‘And bathe him,’ Jane answered before adding that she would also put on Diddy’s favorite show – Dateline.

‘We’d watch it for hours,’ she said with a smile.

Prosecutors asked judge for privacy measures for alleged Diddy victim ‘Jane’
Prosecutors asked the judge to turn the livestream in the overflow room when alleged victim Jane is on the stand.

They said they want to avoid a situation where nonredacted information is shown to those in the overflow and press rooms.

Jane is grilled about her time with Diddy by his lawyers
Teny Geragos asked Jane on Tuesday if she ‘regretted’ many of the choices she made while in a relationshop with Diddy.

‘I resent him for leading me into the lifestyle he led me into,’ she replied.

‘My choices were made under a lot of emotional pressure,’ Jane added.

Geragos then asked if Jane felt ‘resentful that you had s3x with other men for a long time.’

Jane answered: ‘Yes I resented the way he went about introducing me to this lifestyle … it was built under a lot of emotional manipulation and pressure, yes I do resent that very much.’

Defense attorney Teny Geragos questions Jane
Geragos began her cross-examination of Jane on Tuesday asking about her meetings with prosecutors and her relationship with Diddy.

Jane said Friday was the first time she had seen Diddy since his September arrest.

She also revealed the government gave her immunity to testify.

Prosecutors want a juror axed from the jury
Before the jury came in on Tuesday, prosecutors asked the judge to strike juror #6 from the jury.

The judge said an unspecified ‘issue’ had come up for the government.

The motion related to the juror in question is sealed, so no further details were mentioned in court.

The defense, on its part, objected to juror #6 being dismissed.

‘We’d like the opportunity to be heard,’ they told the judge.

WATCH: Diddy’s ex Jane ‘felt like a s3x worker’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex felt like a ‘s3x worker’ in relationship

Judge denies Diddy’s mistrial demand
On Saturday, Diddy’s legal team filed a letter requesting the trial be dismissed following testimony from Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie’s friend and fashion designer, Bryana Bongolan.

Combs’ lawyers have argued that the prosecution knowingly allowed the false testimony to be given because they had seen receipts showing the mogul was in the east coast at the time.

But on Tuesday judge Subramanian denied the request, saying: ‘This is not fodder for a mistrial, it’s the adversarial process at work.’

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs tells courtroom artist he looks like a ‘koala’ in sketches
On Thursday, the gray-bearded hip-hop mogul turned to face courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg in the first row to make an unusual request.

‘Soften me up a bit, you’re making me look like a koala bear,’ Combs said, according to Rosenberg.

Rosenberg, a well-known sketch artist, has been documenting the proceedings for Reuters in Manhattan federal court, where photography and video recording are prohibited.

Diddy is not the first high-profile defendant to remark on Rosenberg’s depictions of them.

Earlier this year, Rudy Giuliani told Rosenberg she had made him look like his dog.

And in 2023, Donald Trump Jr. had a blunt request for Rosenberg during a civil fraud trial over his family’s real estate business: ‘Make me look s3xy.’

ALL of the horrifying allegations of Diddy’s troubled 11-year relationship with Cassie
In her lawsuit, Cassie accused Diddy of luring her into his circle and using his fame, wealth and connections to control her during their troubled 11-year relationship.

She claimed Diddy groomed her, paying for everything with ‘wads of cash’ and telling her ‘don’t worry about money, I have money’. She accused him of ‘perversely insisting’ she called him ‘Pop Pop’, a family name she used for her grandfather. Cassie alleged she was even tasked by Diddy to secure the services of male s3x workers for his regular ‘Freak Offs’ – debauched orgies fuelled by drugs and alcohol.

By making the complaint, Cassie’s actions opened the floodgates for dozens of alleged victims to come forward.

Dr Phil reveals stunning prosecution error and hidden ‘poison’ that everyone has missed
Just four weeks into the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and I want to prepare you for the possibility that these proceedings could come to a sudden, screeching halt.

I spent most of my professional career around courtrooms as a consultant for trial attorneys, instructing them, not on the legal aspects of cases, but on the human elements, specifically how jurors responded to their arguments.

At this moment in the Combs trial – with the prosecution expected to wrap up its arguments in the coming days – I question whether the jury has been presented with enough evidence to reasonably expect them to find a legal basis to convict.

And for that reason, I predict the judge may be tempted to essentially throw the case out of court.

Read Dr Phil’s full analysis here:

Judge to rule on Diddy’s second mistrial motion

LISTEN: Diddy berates ex after she declines ‘freak off,’ tells her to ‘get on her job’
Prosecutors played an audio note from 2023 where Diddy tells Jane to ‘get on her job’ after she said she was not available for a freak off.

‘I’m about to really disappear on you, you feel me?’ the annoyed mogul said on the voice note, adding that Jane had a ‘rude awakening’ coming to her.

‘You better get on your job, that’s all it is,’ he said. ‘Because you got me on my job.’

Jane said she understood her job to be keeping Diddy happy, which included having s3x with male escorts as the mogul watched.

Diddy’s ‘job,’ meanwhile was providing financial support for Jane by providing her $10,000 a month.

Audio recordings Diddy sent to ex-girlfriend released in trial